_a fortiori_, fight for a 25th. His mistake arises from his not knowing that when a person offers to fight another for 1/200d., he really means to fight for love; and that the stake is merely a matter of form, a feigned issue, a _pro forma_ report of progress. Do the Members of the House think they have all the forms to themselves? "What would be the present We should hardly believe all expression for four-pence? this to be uttered in earnest, Why, 0.166 (a laugh); for if we had not known {177} that threepence? .0125; for a several persons who have not penny? .004166, and so on _ad Mr. Lowe's humor, nevertheless infinitum_ (a laugh); for a have his impressions on this half-penny? .002083 _ad point. It must therefore be infinitum_. (A laugh). What answered; but how is this to would be the present be done seriously? expression for a farthing? Why, .0010416 _ad infinitum_. _Dialogue between a member of (A laugh). And this was the Parliament and an orange-boy, system which was to cause such three days after the a saving in figures, and these introduction of the complete were the quantities into which decimal system. The member, the poor would have to reduce going down to the House, wants the current coin of the realm. oranges to sustain his voice (Cheers). With every respect in a two hours' speech on for decimal fractions, of moving that 100000l. be placed which he boasted no profound at the disposal of Her knowledge, he doubted whether Majesty, to supply the poor the poor were equal to mental with ready-reckoners._ arithmetic of this kind, (hear, hear) and he hoped the _Boy._ Fine oranges! two a adoption of the system would penny! two a penny! {178} be deferred until there were some proof that they would be _Member._ Here boy, two! Now, able to understand it; for, how am I to pay you? after all, this was the question of the poor, and the _Boy._ Give you change, your whole weight of the change honor. would fall upon them. Let the rich by all means have _Member._ Ah! but how? Where's permission to perplex your ready-reckoner? themselves by any division of a pound they pleased; but do _Boy._ I sells a better sort not let them, by any nor them. Mine's real Cheyny. experiment like this, impose difficulties upon the poor and _Member._ But you see a compel men to carry farthing is now .0014166666 ready-reckoners in their _ad infinitum_, and if we pocket to give them all these multiply this by 4---- fractional quantities." (Hear,